Finance and Accounting in the Digital Age

What Finance and Accounting Professionals Need to Know about Digital Technology

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Finance and Accounting in the Digital Age

What You Will Learn!

Describe the impacts of digital technologies on the finance profession
Explain the meaning of FinTech and financial inclusivity
Define digital transformation and describe how it is changing the finance function
Compare between MIS, AIS, and ERP
List the phases of Systems Development Life Cycle
Describe the main innovative technologies impacting businesses
Explain the concept of databases
Describe the meaning of big data
Evaluate the importance and uses of data analytics
Describe the meaning and importance of data governance
State the stages of the Data Life Cycle
Explain the role of COBIT framework in information systems governance

Description

Advances in digital technologies have impacted many industries, and the way we do business. This impact is being extended to Finance as well. Finance and accounting professionals need to be aware of these technological advances and how they impact the future of the finance profession.

The main objective of this course is to increase the awareness of finance and accounting professionals of digital technologies, to help them provide better value to their organizations.

The course explores the following topics:

Digital Transformation: Management Information System, Systems Development Life Cycle, Introduction to Digital Technologies (AI, Cloud, Blockchain, and Automation)
Data Analytics: Introduction to Databases, Big Data
Data Governance